各位同學 大家好,
因為本月考了很多倍數表達的修辭題, 簡單整理如下
倍數表達法，兩倍用twice/double + N，三倍(含以上)用times，
表達超過或少於幾倍用more/less than + twice or xx times + as many/
much/few/little N as..
GWD-27-Q7
Environmentalists in Chicago report that the total amount of
pollutant emitted annually by vehicles at O’Hare International
Airport is twice that emitted annually by all motor vehicles in
the Chicago metropolitan area.
GWD-31-Q28
Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the
size of the 6-mile-wide asteroid.
GWD-12-Q14
In 1914 a total of 469,000 cars and trucks were produced in the
United States, but in 1929 almost twice that number of trucks
alone came off the assembly lines.
OG11-85
Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century,
but financially strained townships point out that dirt roads cost
twice as much to maintain as paved roads do.
OG11-128
Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the
same amount of acreage produces twice as many apples as it did in
1910.
OG12-16
Personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than
double the 1.4 percent growth rate in personal spending for the
previous quarter.
PP2-87
Exceeding even the figures predicted by the most optimistic
financial analysts, the automobile company's earnings in the first
quarter were more than double those of the previous quarter.
OG11-37
In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at
Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, four times as many
Americans were killed as would later be killed on the beaches of
Normandy during D-Day.
GWD-24-Q20
According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College
an University Business Officers, more than three times as many
independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and
fees of under $8,000 a year as those charging over $16,000.
OV11-18
Although accounting for only 5 percent of the world’s population,
United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable
resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use
21 times more water per capita than Europeans do.
OG13-48.
Though called a sea, the landlocked Caspian is actually the
largest lake on Earth, covering more than four times the surface
area of its closest rival in size, North America’s Lake Superior.
58. (27510-!-item-!-188;#058&003569) KEY: B
If current trends continue, by the year 2010 carbon emissions in
the United States will soar to a level more than one-third higher
than were those in 1990, according to official projections.
(A) will soar to a level more than one-third higher than were those
(B) will soar to a level more than one-third higher than that
(C) would soar to a level more than one-third higher than it was
(E) would soar to a level more than one-third higher than they were
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